Eve Levin, Editor

Eve has served as Editor of
The Russian Review since 1996. From 1988 to 1996, she
served as Associate Editor under the late Professor Allan
Wildman. In addition, she holds the position of Professor
in the Department of History at The University of
Kansas.

Professor Levin holds a B.A. from Mount
Holyoke College (1975), an M.A. from Indiana University
(1976), and a Ph.D. from Indiana University (1983). She
was on the faculty at The Ohio State University from 1983
until June 2003, when she accepted a position at The
University of Kansas. Her research specialization lies in
the area of the history of Russia and the Balkans in the
premodern period, especially issues relating to gender,
sexuality, religion, medicine, and popular culture. She
is the author of Sex and Society in the World of the
Orthodox Slavs, 900-1700 (Cornell University Press,
1989), and the translator and editor of Natalia
Pushkareva's Women in Russian History (M.E.
Sharpe, 1997). She has held major grants from the
International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), the
Fulbright-Hays program of the Department of Education,
the American Council of Learned Societies, and the
National Council for Eurasian and East European Research.
She is a founding member of the Early Slavic Studies
Association, and served as its first Newsletter
Editor (1987-91). From 1992 to 1995, she served as
Director for Ohio State's Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies. She is also an acclaimed
undergraduate teacher and mentor to graduate students,
recently headed up KU's participation in the Carnegie
Initiative on the Doctorate, and in June 2005 became
Director of Graduate Studies in KU's Department of
History.

When professional responsibilities allow, Eve spends
time in her garden, where she grows grapes and
herbs. It is therapeutic sometimes, she says, to
"take a hoe and whack some clods."
Other than Slavic studies and gardening, her great
passion is chocolate.